War Stories from Applied Math

War Stories from Applied Math PDF Author: Robert Fraga
Publisher: MAA
ISBN: 0883851814
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Book Description
These projects are adaptations of transcripts made at a workship at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI in 1996. This workshop ... brought together four mathematicians ... representatives from industry, and an audience of mathematicans interested in trying out the ideas presented to them.

War Stories from Applied Math

War Stories from Applied Math PDF Author: Robert Fraga
Publisher: MAA
ISBN: 0883851814
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Book Description
These projects are adaptations of transcripts made at a workship at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI in 1996. This workshop ... brought together four mathematicians ... representatives from industry, and an audience of mathematicans interested in trying out the ideas presented to them.

Mathematical Time Capsules

Mathematical Time Capsules PDF Author: Dick Jardine
Publisher: MAA
ISBN: 088385984X
Category : Computer science
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Book Description
Mathematical Time Capsules offers teachers historical modules for immediate use in the mathematics classroom. Readers will find articles and activities from mathematics history that enhance the learning of topics covered in the undergraduate or secondary mathematics curricula. Each capsule presents at least one topic or a historical thread that can be used throughout a course. The capsules were written by experienced practitioners to provide teachers with historical background and classroom activities designed for immediate use in the classroom, along with further references and resources on the chapter subject. --Publisher description.

Mathematical Writing

Mathematical Writing PDF Author: Donald E. Knuth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780883850633
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Book Description
This book will help those wishing to teach a course in technical writing, or who wish to write themselves.

Applications of Mathematics in Economics

Applications of Mathematics in Economics PDF Author: Warren Page
Publisher: MAA
ISBN: 088385192X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Book Description
Shows instructors what mathematics is used at the undergraduate level in various parts of economics. Separate sections provide students with opportunities to apply their mathematics in relevant economics contexts. Brings together many different mathematics applications to such varied economics topics.

Teaching Mathematics with Classroom Voting

Teaching Mathematics with Classroom Voting PDF Author: Kelly Slater Cline
Publisher: MAA
ISBN: 1614443017
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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Book Description
Are you looking for new ways to engage your students? Classroom voting can be a powerful way to enliven your classroom, by requiring all students to consider a question, discuss it with their peers, and vote on the answer during class. When used in the right way, students engage more deeply with the material, and have fun in the process, while you get valuable feedback when you see how they voted. But what are the best strategies to integrate voting into your lesson plans? How do you teach the full curriculum while including these voting events? How do you find the right questions for your students? This collection includes papers from faculty at institutions across the country, teaching a broad range of courses with classroom voting, including college algebra, precalculus, calculus, statistics, linear algebra, differential equations, and beyond. These faculty share their experiences and explain how they have used classroom voting to engage students, to provoke discussions, and to improve how they teach mathematics. This volume should be of interest to anyone who wants to begin using classroom voting as well as people who are already using it but would like to know what others are doing. While the authors are primarily college-level faculty, many of the papers could also be of interest to high school mathematics teachers. --Publisher description.

Undergraduate Mathematics for the Life Sciences

Undergraduate Mathematics for the Life Sciences PDF Author: Glenn Ledder
Publisher: MAA
ISBN: 0883851911
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Book Description
There is a gap between the extensive mathematics background that is beneficial to biologists and the minimal mathematics background biology students acquire in their courses. The result is an undergraduate education in biology with very little quantitative content. New mathematics courses must be devised with the needs of biology students in mind. In this volume, authors from a variety of institutions address some of the problems involved in reforming mathematics curricula for biology students. The problems are sorted into three themes: Models, Processes, and Directions. It is difficult for mathematicians to generate curriculum ideas for the training of biologists so a number of the curriculum models that have been introduced at various institutions comprise the Models section. Processes deals with taking that great course and making sure it is institutionalized in both the biology department (as a requirement) and in the mathematics department (as a course that will live on even if the creator of the course is no longer on the faculty). Directions looks to the future, with each paper laying out a case for pedagogical developments that the authors would like to see.

Doing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Mathematics

Doing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Mathematics PDF Author: Jacqueline M. Dewar
Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
ISBN: 0883851938
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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Book Description
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) movement encourages faculty to view teaching “problems” as invitations to conduct scholarly investigations. In this growing field of inquiry faculty bring their disciplinary knowledge and teaching experience to bear on questions of teaching and learning. They systematically gather evidence to develop and support their conclusions. The results are to be peer reviewed and made public for others to build on. This Notes volume is written expressly for collegiate mathematics faculty who want to know more about conducting scholarly investigations into their teaching and their students’ learning. Envisioned and edited by two mathematics faculty, the volume serves as a how-to guide for doing SoTL in mathematics.

Resources for Preparing Middle School Mathematics Teachers

Resources for Preparing Middle School Mathematics Teachers PDF Author: Cheryl Beaver
Publisher: MAA
ISBN: 0883851903
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Book Description
"Cheryl Beaver, Laurie Burton, Maria Fung, Klay Kruczek, editors"--Cover.

Resources for Teaching Discrete Mathematics

Resources for Teaching Discrete Mathematics PDF Author: Brian Hopkins
Publisher: MAA
ISBN: 9780883851845
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Book Description
Hopkins collects the work of 35 instructors who share their innovations and insights about teaching discrete mathematics at the high school and college level. The book's 9 classroom-tested projects, including building a geodesic dome, come with student handouts, solutions, and notes for the instructor. The 11 history modules presented draw on original sources, such as Pascal's "Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle," allowing students to explore topics in their original contexts. Three articles address extensions of standard discrete mathematics content. Two other articles explore pedagogy specifically related to discrete mathematics courses: adapting a group discovery method to larger classes, and using logic in encouraging students to construct proofs.

Hands on History

Hands on History PDF Author: Amy Shell-Gellasch
Publisher: MAA
ISBN: 0883851822
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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Book Description
In an increasingly electronic society, these exercises are designed to help school and collegiate educators use historical devices of mathematics to balance the digital side of mathematics.